The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-16 00:00:00

INIURRNBIihO' Oct'. 22.-.—ACCOrtiing to advises fro n Mottiptt, iwo French and two. Bavariiin Gene t-al; have proceeded with - the Prince Of Lichtenstein to the froqtiers of the Tyrol, to inforin the Tyrolese Commit tee,' who have been invited to meet "-therm ther e , that their country will never morwcpme un der the dominion of Austria, hut will remain sub- Jed- to the:Crown of Bavara, and to exhort then) to be submissive a n d obedient to their lawfur&ive reign. A person at Salftburg has laid a bet of 100 Napoleons d'or, that the Tyrolee will he completely subduect before the end of the month. FRANKFOUT, OCT. 31.--The Marshal Duke of Dant zic arrived here ',n the 'egih. NAVAL N EWS. the Busy cutter privateer ; BELL, from a cruize ; the Susan and Mary, .SiNg, from Llanelly and a schooner, from the Westward, DEAL, Nov. 15.—Came down from the River and sade,l immediately, the /Pi/act:it, NtottnAN, for New York, and several other ships Rivaud, who commands a division of the lith corps, i 4 still here: The P i russian Colonel Krusernarck passed . through this place on the 28th, with dispatches for Paris. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 24.—Various letters have, been addressed to the Norwegian Government, con taining further particulars respeeting the predatory Operations of some English men of war on the Finmark coasts, in the months of June and July last. The Snake cutter brig, of t 8 guns, appeared .off Haaveg on the 4th of July, and under a heavy can nonade, landed two boats filled with armed men, who immediately entered the place, hoisted the English flag, burst open the church doors, broke the Poor-box in pieces, carried off the Money in it; and 6rntbitted various other 'euormitiei. They remain-, shore &nil the 19th, when they teturned.on i ; Joa rd the-brig, whiCh had in , the mean time put to e 2, but returned on the 17th with the brig Fancy, 1) f-14 .guns, Capt. Snigler. Both brigs, having pro vided themselves with a -supply of wood and water, Sailed again on the 2 ist July. On the 22d, they litcod in, towards the village of Hammerfert, and sanded a detachment, whO, after an atiion of an hour and a half with the garrison, consisting of 28 Soldiers and 50 iHhabitants of the (vast, destroyed the batteries, which were mounted with four six- Pounders, and re-embarked on the 30th July. .On the 4 in, they captured three Norway boats, off lidav eg. T he Naval Lieutenant' Holstein has carried into Kett a prize, which he cut Off from the enemy's iconvov. PORTSBIOUTH, Nov I 5 --Arrived 'yesterday after post, the - following t ransports • from Guernsey, with troops on hoard they are ,destined for the West Indies :—The .Colunibine, Ides, Wolga Royalist, Thetis, Ellen, Zephyr, and Mentor. Arrived a" French privateer, prize to his Majesty's ship Euryla las. • • Sailed the Harvey, ATKINSON ; and Friends, BRO.. DERICK, for-the A:Delia Islands ; hi. Majesty's ship Bucephalus tor the Cape of Good Hope, with a feW ship under convoy, among which is the Abundance store-ship ; leis Majesty's ship Sybille on a cruize and Dido, TAYLOR, for Sunderland. YARMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Passed through - the Roads from the Northward, a large fleet of ships, under convoy of several inert of war, .sqpposed to he -from the Baltic. TORBAY, Nov. 14.--Arrived this morning, the Eclipse sloop of war, from Plymouth, to convoy to the Island of Waleheren the Prince of Wales trans port, now lying here with a detachment of the yth Light dragoons on board. MADRID, OCT. I.s.—Posterity, on perusing the l 'istory of our present troubles, will hardly credit „ Z'e atrocities which the Spanish nation, in other . re t":l46 so brave and generous, have been led to per rate. A chara&er of cruelty has been impressed pre.ient internal war, of which we find no t ' a Mple in the history of civilised, nations, and but e W instances in that of barbarous countries. It n'akes one shudder to hear of the atrocities which r r "ed. parties commit upon thothoseunfortunate „,,, e , n eh soldiers, or, travellers, whom 'they fall in tt u , in a state.comnlereli defenceless, and whom Pat to death, without mercy, amidst. every escript ion of torture. Such a mode of warfare is 'reprobated by religion, humanity, and the law of nations. ' l3 "' it is not enough to tolerate such enormities they are even stamped with the names of heroism and patriotism. Thus , in the the , Gzetle of the .1t1) one Xavier de Mena is prai , ed for having, Wttb a band of self-called palriotr;infeSted the roads Detween Pampeluna and SaragnSiiie, ' and, basely ill t'tated and 'butchered such straggling Frenchmen t ll / ,‘.ii in his way. In the paper just mentioned, ad 's man is denominated brave, though he has Bever spiiit-enough to serve in the Spanish army, or to'. freer in the field a French corps,. considerably ince rior in numbers to his folloWers.' In order to merit • that title, the wretch boasts 'that ht has, ; • with hiS own hand, assassinated -a ntiniber of Prenchinen, lind among others, that lie skit a General of Divi sion in his carriage. A Decree has been published here, in which his Majesty says, that he has learnt with regret, tha, iu b 3 tisecitience of existing,abuSes wiih regard• to the collection of tythes, the parochial clergy of his king , - tfom 'are aaually *destitute of the necessaries of life I._ and being anxious to put an e n d t o suc h a state o f t hings, by a permanen't provision for the subsisterice 6 f ii. a class of sobjeas not less useful and respeCtables zA that of fhe higher clergy, he has fixed the mi d of the stipends'of the parochial priests at 400 is a year. POETRY. tHE LITERARY MEETING. " Said a smile to a tear." 0. P. Said a P to an 0 On the hat of a‘ teau, Where Btu', lately roar(' stormy weather; In truth, lovely Oi the cause I don't know Which brings you and me here together. I came here forlorn. From the Alphabet torn, To heighten the Manager's grief; And I, said the 0, Am now quite the Go, To give Mr. W INHOLT relief. U now lovely 0 The_ secret I know, We both are old D x twoat it's , Abettors ; W henever O. I'. In a hat-b a nd we see, The wearer is learning bit Letters. Yesterclly, one of the party of the Royal Horse G uards, who were escorting his Majesty from Wind tor to London, was thrown from his horse at Cole 'rook, and very much hurt. The same•horse threw tuan, a few weekS since, on, the same journey, and be is, still in the hospital. After they had changed ,4 1 orse s , one of the light-horse ran away with his 11 (19., and rode furiously against one of his Majesty's ' t tendatits, which knocked him and his horse down ; s the attendant sustained very little injury, and re- I Nunted his horse. The soldier's horse was stopped ' Y the party, which was forward, and the man mounted him again, although his face was covered *ll ll blood from the wounds he had received. Yesterday the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Pave a grand Cabinet dinner, at his house in Down 111g-street. There were present the LORD CHAN ELLOR, Earls LIVERPOOL, HARROWBY, BA -I.IIUUST, CHATHAM ; Lords MULGRAVR and PAL -I'''4.IIY.TON, and Mr. RIDER. LATP REPORT. COURT OF KlNG's 13ENCH, Nov; ts. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Sail,q! Ms Majesty's ship Quete•,tc. the Westward; and the Harlequin hired ; THE KING V. FRANCI6 F RE DER ICK P9HLMAN, .101TSI arm.; ship; Lieutenant ANSTRUTHER, on a cruize. . Arrived- the Ph(Pbe, HEAD, from Philadelphia SEILOCI••, AND SAUAII HARVE'f i The ATTORNEY GENERAL Prayed the Cont.! fur judgment nil these Defendants, found goilty, at the 1.0:1;Lin Sitting.; after last term, of conspiring to proenre 20001.. for the sale - of an appointment, to be made by the Lord 3 Comthissi.•ners.of the Treasury., of the office of Coasting- v.aiter in th e Cu s t oms; L&d - - • - ELLENBQROUGH, before whom the indict ment was tried, read his notes on the trial ; and long affidavits, in mitigation of pUnishment by each of the Defendant 4, were afterwards read by the proper officers of the Conrt i i the prnicipal points of which were afterwards urged by the several Counsel for the • . several Defendants, as follows Mr. ESPINAME and Mr. Anonrows, fOr the De - ftndant Pohlman, addressed the Court, not in mi tieation of the offence, but of the punishment to .be aided on the . Defendant. They admitted that_! thanks were due to the Attorney General for his - in terference in the present ,case, and were rejoiced to find, that in consequence of that interference, ad -1 ivertisements for the sale of ptiblic offices were now at an end. It was only natural, they contended, for their client, who was a foreigner, to fall into error, 1 when every newspap er c onta i ne d an a d vert i sem e nt j for the disposal of -places, and their client was only { the means of introducing parties to each other; nor j did he intend the smallest deceit, advertising in his own name, and referring to his own place of Tesi -1 dence. The persi i ns who answered the advertise- . I meat, the Defendant Pohltnan r e fe r red t o th e Cus tom-House Office ; and as to what the evidence had stated about dispensing with the ,Custom-House oath; this the D...fendatin swore himself to have on detStood 'to 'refer to the oath about the age of the party. It had also been stated in the evidence, that - the Duke. of Portland had received money on ac count of the . sale of places; all the Defendant Pohlman'had intimated was, that persons about' the Doke had received such money. The Defendant further stated, - that not a single public place had ever been sold at his office, and that he had received no etriolumenti . tom the present negotiation. The Defendant Pohlman was a stranger to this country and to its laws, and • the learned Counsel imputed half his pia to his ignorance of our language and our laws, and urged his imprisonment from July, on tbesurrender of his bail, in mitigation of his pu- ' ni 41 meat, Mr. DAMPIER, "foirtheDefendant Keylock, urged that no transaction had; actually, taken place, and that his client and his partner • were • the dupes, and not the duping. Mr. Hesse,- file negociator for the place, had got his money back, acid it was Keylock who added the clause in the aegociation, that tip • money should be,received fruin Mr. Hesse, unless he obtained his situation. Notwithstanding all the: clamour which.had been raised'about these things,.. his client had lost between Gal. and 701. by this con cern ; and •it could not but go vut into the world, that when these negociations did take place, they were, losing concerns: The Learned Counsel con-, eluded ) . that notwithstanding all the flippancy about. oaths which the. evidence detailed, that obligation was never mentioned . before his client without his_ expt essing his sense of the.setiousncss and solemnity. pt th ~ obligation. . . • ~-.. • Mr. GURNEY, on the 'part -Of the Defendant, Sarah Hatvey,-urged that she was the mere dive of Jeremiah Reding, whose name had been intro!- &iced into a negociatiOn in =which Lord Castlereagh was implicated, and who introduced- himself to his client while he was in prison for debt, as a person cOnnki e ,t with gentlemen of high rank in the State. If Reding could impose upon them, then the learned Counsel contended that it was n6t very improbable that be should impose upon his client'. He showed her letter's, which she believed to be genuine, and she negotiated ,hiS business for. him.; at first believ ing hi l l ) to be a man in distress, but was afterwards perstiaded to accept of a remuneration for her great trouble, and aelually accepted of a promissory note for 5.01. which was,never paidond of which she, had never received a farthing tothisday. She had never been concerned in any prior transaction of thelike nature, and did not know the present' to be illegal ; rea di n g ,advertisements to its etleCt in ti the nel.vspa. pers every'day. She had but a slender income .and. two . .small children to support; and these circum stances'the learned Counsel pressed in. mitigation of her punishment. , • COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. .We regret to state again that this place presented last tight a scene of tumult ; during the first three ads indeed•the - opposition was but trifling, but from halt-price no part of the performance could be heard. In the course of the evening some severe contests took place in the pit, in consequence of the attempts of the Officers of the Police to .seize some of the most conspicuous of the 0. ,P.'s, who were exhi biting with rattles, horns, &c. We are concerned to state that a person of the name of Cowlam, was thrown down in the pit, and received so ,much in jury that he was carried to a Surgeon's, and•some : apprehensions were entertained for his life. We are • riot able from personal observation to state the cir stances which led to tins unfortunate event ; we must therefore refer our readers to the proceedings at Bow-street, where the circumstance was men-' tioned by aft lend of Mt. Cowlam. The opposition seemed principally °Defined to the pit ; very few 0. P.'s were exhibited in the boxes, in which there were a greater proportion of Ladies than usual. The riots., continued during the after-piece of The Blind Boy., am:, when the curtain dropped, a! person lose in the .pit, wink! his companions were seated i anci stated,;hat Mr. Cowlam had been nearly killed that veniug and as he Was not expe&ed t o -live, until morning, the speaker requested that those Gently - lee who had •witnessed the scuffle would Meet at, the Temple , Coffee-house, to snake 'a .-fair representation. of the circumstance, The: O. P.'s then .s4eg " God seive thg King," 'arid " Rule Britannia," and dispels-d. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUIV • MR. EDITOR, Prat-.allow a place in your valuable Paper for . thi Leo from a Plain Old Man, upon the subject i dispu: - at Covent-Garden `Theatre. What, Sir,'has been.'t he plea of every tradesman in this country for raising his . price ? it . not be cause he cannot buy the same thing' Of any sort for the same sum as formerly, an.! therefore cannot sell it at the former price. This is and has betln the plea of every one of us : upon this we ground our right to an advance, and out of a Theatrcits'justice is universally acknowledged ; but, Sir, why' not in' a Theatre ? why in the name of common ' honesty, when all ranks of men in the Kingdom, except Proprietors of a Theatre, are allowed to raise their prices, are they to• be excluded ? Say the opponents to the New Prices, Covent-Garden Theatre po ssesses . . a monopoly, and therefore ought not to have raised The ATTORNEI-GENEL, -- 111'siipport of the pro their prices ; give us, say they, a rival Th e at re , an d secu ti on, sa id , that a good deal had been urged on then charge what you • please, but do not advance the ground ot.the frequency of place-advertisements': till then. I beg leave to submit a few words in an- the fact was, that such .advertisements were by no swer to this. If it were right to pay three shillings means common; and though they might appear to w and sixpence for an admission into the Pit t we lv e be not illegal On the face of them, when you came years ago, can four shillings, amidst such a mighty to the enquiry, they could nor appem - otherwise.— increase of every expellee, be thought too much now ? There wasaiot a single person who did not believe, One thing is certain, the rise at the Theatre bears , after enquiry at the Defendants' office, that a very no proportion to the rise in other things ; but it is scandalous sale of offices was going on ; and the ex-. • said the profits were sufficient, and therefore the tent of the mischief which this impression produced price of admission ought not to have been raised. was, that all public offices were objects of traffic. rive as respectable men, I belieire,. a s any that are to By this means the Government was brought into be found at any time in Covent-Garden Theatre, disrepute; and thus the mischiel was effetted. The have declared,that after having had recourse to every Attorney-General rejoiced in the assertion, that information, oral and written, they . are'of a different s ince the pres en t t r i a l, t hi s traffic, had ceased ; but opinion. it would not cease if a preventive punishment was . But suppose them to be wrong,. spew me in all not awarded in the present instance. The Defend- England, if you can, a single individual who ads, or , ant, Pohlman, the Learned Attorney-Generai con who, has aced, upon the principle recommended : tended, was not entitled to indulgence after his pre where lives the man, whatever his pryits might have sent evasive affidavit ; as to his not knowing of the been; who leas not raised his pri c e when the price illegality c-r his proceeding, he urged that illegality, was raised to him ? Sir; there is no such person : and the proceedings of the House of Commons, as .Then upon what. prineiple of justice is it that a -an excuse for his not completing his undertaking : Proprietor of a Theatre is to be singled out from the and as to his regard for an oath, the oath, in the herd? Is this doing as we would be done unto present instance, • was stated by him to have been I was .never acquainted with a theatrical - man in only a little trilling oath that the party had not pur my life : Ido not know a single individual belong- chased the place; a circumstance which at once ing to any of the Theatres, but, to see a Play well shewed the Defendant's knowledge of the illegality steed is a great pleasure to me ; andl am grieved to Of his proceeding, and his connivance at perjury.—, see those belonging to it- so cruelly ill treated. j The Defendant Pohlman, too, conversed at Mrs. I remember bearing Mr. Sheridan say " the Harvey's with a third person, who talked about People of England . were often wrongheaded, but another place, as a qualification for which, the oath never wronghearted :" generosity is natural to an bad been stiff, but swallowed. When persons who Englishman : justice, I trust, will ever rule were brought up to receive punishment before his when he refieds. Let those then who arehow ene- Lordship; defended their conduct' aistead of apolo, mies to Covent-Garden Theatre pause a moment, gizing for it, they were open to the severest censure. and - consider whether, ruder all the circumstances, The conduct of the Defendant Keylock had not the Proprietors of that House have merited all the been so bad, but it was far from being blameless; sufferings their countrymen have intlided on them.. ' knew what was going on,,•and shaleu the profits. Your's, ' The Learned Attorney-General could not compre- A QUIET OLD MAN, bend how their office could be beset from mot ning u night, as they stated it to have been, and yet no Nov. 14, 1809. other instance of the sale of ate office to have ocduraw red, as they stated it. But supposing all these De i'endants swore to be true; the mischief to the public was done in answorig engotries, by professing to lmve the ineansvol selling public offices of trust, and the publ.: mind had in tad been so imt , ressed. As to the innocence of these De'eridants, be had to learn till to-day, that tiii,se who kept houses to decoy prostituttff, were less Wat»abie han the prostitti•e-s As to the Defendant, Sarah ,u hose ginit, according to the D. fel-1(1,1-s of Pfitihnan and Keylock' infinitely exceeded theirs - , that wti 1)t - the consideration of the. Court. 6ha threw the Odium from herself to Redingi the prosecution of the Court could be directed. only 2.r.inst the-artors in 'the affair ; and it it w ere n o t So • it would he in the power, any. •person to place himself behind, to the evasion of public justice. The 'Learned Attorney-Geaeral wished that Pohlman and Keylock had stated who applied to them to open an office for the sale of public places, and what those places were;• but k was clisinised to think their whole pretended authority- and. power untrue. Lord ELLENBOROUGH adverted to an important document annexed to the affidavit of the Defendant HarVey, in which 9601. were said to be received by. Sikes, Snaith, and Co. Mr, GURNEY.—" %VWCh sum she handed to Redlng." .1,061 ELLENBOROUGA....-" She is not implicated in this; the bearinii lies in three other direction. Let the several Defendants be committed to the cns• todv of the Marshaist•a of this Court, and brought up for judgment on Saturday 'se'nnight. THE KING V. CLAIiKE. Mr. RAINS moved tor a Rule to chew cause why an information in the nature of a Qua if/qiianto should not be dirk:led, calling' on the Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool to strew cause by what aiz thorny the Dcleudant, Mr., Clarke, acted as Ma) or of Liverpool. The choice of - Mayor lay the whsle body, but it had been customary, that the'Eleaion might be completed within the d.ay, to carry :t on by tallies. The two Candidates at the last deEtion were a Mr. Drinkwater, and the present . D.len:iant. It was proposed by the friends of the former, in or der that no advantage might be taken, that the par ties shOuld toss up for the first tally, but Mr. Clarke's friends opposed this, stating, however, at the same time, that each should have his turn. They then proceeded to take the tallies, beginning . with Mr. Clarke. When at the third tally they came to Mr. Driukwater's side, his tally not being com pleted, they returned to Mr.. Clarke's, which wets also incomplete. They then requested to return to Mr. Drink water's, which was now full; but this they refdsed, and entering fire inure votes to Mr, Clarke., made proclatnation of the Election in his , favour, at the h-ur of twelve o'clock, although the Eleaion did not commence till ten o'clock.----Rule granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15. The Court were for a considerable tiLue occupied in bearing bail justified. CLIFFORD V. BRANDON. Mr.,Set - jcant SHEPHERD, for ,the 'D4endant in this cause, which was an anion for assault and false imprisonment, on the part of the Plaintiff, who is a Barrister at Law, against the Delendatit, who is' the Box-keeper of Covent-G.irden Th.:atre, moved for a Rule to sne:,v„canse why the action should not be set aside, upon a variety O. grounds which he had to plead in justification of the Defendant's contiuct. -7--F•irst, That the! Theatre was duly licensed ark! authorised to represent comedies and .tragedies, and the Managers to demand such prices as they should de - ern most expedient, for the admission of an au dience to different ,parts of , the house.—Secondly, That the Plainlid; accompanied by t:aree other per-: sons, on . the night stated, did illegally commit a trespass in: the said Theatre, for the purpose of obliging the Managers to reduce their prices ) for that during the exhibition of the farce, the said per• . sons did create a disturbance and riot, to th e liner ruption of the perforMance, s and the, great annoy, ance. of the peaceable persons there assembled to enjoy the amusements of the evening ; and that the Defendant being a principal servant of the house, did, as he conceived to be his duty, give the Manna in charge to a Constable, in order to restore and pre, serve the peace . of the, house, and-j,•event the fur ther progress of,riot.—Thirdly, That the Plaintiff did, on the same evening, instigate many othei per sons .by his example to make disturbance and riot ! and to interrupt the performance onkthe stage. These were the principal grounds of the Learned Serjeant's ruo.tion. He regretted the necessity ; of urging sa many different pleas on this occasion but they were rendered necessary by the different ob= jeets of the riot and disturbance in question. Sir. JAMBS MANSFIELD readily granted the Rule to shew cause, as being the usual mode of proceed ing adopted in such cases. His Lordship said, that he had been given to understand it was the declared opinion of some learned Counsel; that it 'was lawful to pull the Theatre to pieces, and even knock the '.performers' on the head. His Lordship, however, (dissenting most essentially from this dodrine) ob served, that if the Managers, instead of holding dii turbers to bail, had brought their a&ions against such persons as were able to pay damages, the reStatt would be Widely different from any that bad yet occurred. • • Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of CAM, BRIDGE had a grand dinner party at his house in Berkeley-square. On Tuesday evening died, at Lansdowne House, iti Berkeley-square, the Must Noble the Marquis of LANebowNR. His Lordship was for many months in a'declining state of health. In - the autumn of the present year, by the advice of his medical attendants, he was preparing to embark for Lisbon, to try the effect t of the temperature of the atmosphere of that country. Previously to his intended departure, he visited his favourite Castle at Southampton, and finding himself daily getting better, he abandoned his intention of going to Portugal. His disorder v+ as a liver complaint, to which he had for many years been subjeti. His Lordship was married a le.w years since to Lady GIFFORD, but he left no issue. His title and estates devolve in consequence to his only brother, Lord HENRY PEE-NY, nvw Marquis of LANSDOWNE.